Take Control of .Mac

Chapter . Store and Share Files with iDisk

iDisk is without a doubt one of the most useful—and most visible—features of .Mac. An iDisk is like an extra hard drive that provides 10 GB ^[1] of storage for your files (2.5 GB for Family Pack sub-account holders), but this virtual drive is actually located on Apple’s servers. You can use it to store anything you want, and you can access it from nearly any computer on the Internet. By putting items in your iDisk’s Public folder, you can also make those items available to others (with optional password protection).

That said, depending on how you look at it, you have much more or much less than 10 GB of space on your iDisk. Apple sometimes makes software updates and third-party downloads available via ...